Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Jonathan Raban

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Terry Goodkind

Come, come, said Tom's father, at your time of life, There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake-- It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife. Why, so it is father--whose wife shall I take?

Thomas Moore

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sara Shepard

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Maxwell Maltz

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Don Henley

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

Amor Towles

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.

Michael Phelps